To all of our great new uploaders from around the globe, first of all, we appreciate you bringing torrents here to ET. Sharing is after all, caring. There are a few things we do differently here, and I'd like to go over some of them with you guys.

As some of you have heard, the infamous Mininova is now under extreme pressure and given up the good fight. A site once respected, just like The Pirate Bay, has given in. We cannot allow this to end our cause to promote file sharing globally! Just in time, to the rescue, the ET tracker has prevailed and guarantees all it's peers WE WILL NOT FAIL!

It feels like it was yesterday, a few friends from Sweden launched a BitTorrent tracker “The Pirate Bay”. It got bigger through the years and it’s safe to say maybe even the biggest of all trackers. It was an iconic idea and a peace of file-sharing history. It coordinated the downloads of more than 25 million peers at it’s best days.

Once again the infamous Swedish torrent tracking and index giant, The Pirate Bay, is looking for new buyers to take over complete control of the site. After the fallout and media fiasco surrounding the proposed sale of the torrent index to Global Gaming Factory X fell through, it appears they still want to sell their exclusively hated-by-Hollywood tracker.

Since the arrival of the BitTorrent Protocol within the last decade, we've seen the rise and fall of many popular torrent trackers. Trackers are persistent in retaining swarm transmissions, and allow the scrape of public torrents worldwide. With the fall of so many popular trackers, everyone always asks what trackers remain, and what they should use. Here I'll outline for you a small list of public and open torrent trackers, all of which you can use when creating a new .torrent file. I'll also unveil to the public, a new and interesting tracker, the Genocide tracker.

Today I sit down with the Marketing and Public Relations director, of The Pirate Party Of Canada (PPCA) for a sharing of thoughts about the current situation in the global community and the attack on BitTorrent index sites and their trackers. Thank you for your Time Mr. Jake Daynes, and welcome to Extra Torrent.

This past year, a monstrosity of p2p movements have sprouted up in many grass roots campaigns globally. The success of Swedish and European Pirate Parties, elected and holding offices in government in many nations, have brought new attention and motivation to smaller pro-p2p associations around the world, and most recently, in Canada. Pirate Party Of Canada, which has only debuted in 2009, is already making waves that can be felt through the international headlines.

Many have asked the question, which trackers can I rely on? As of recent, so many popular torrent trackers are falling. The Pirate Bay, which at one time was the main torrent tracker throughout most of the world, is no longer showing proper stats for it's torrents. Leaving many to ask, what do I do now? Well there are many alternatives, although I recommend using a tried and trusted tracker, for the torrent to live on for a very long time.